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From: Bo Grimes <boslists@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Network Down Apps trying to use lo instead of eth0
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:48:46
Message-Id: 57dcd8c00810071948r495814c8ua9e66a0be8c16bf9@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Network Down Apps trying to use lo instead of eth0 by Bo Grimes
1 Let me try that again. Sorry. Using Gmail's web interface and I seem
2 to have botched the formatting. The results of route are:
3
4 Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
5 192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
6 0 eth0
7 loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0
8 0 0 lo
9 default 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 U 0 0
10 0 etho
11
12 On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Bo Grimes <boslists@×××××.com> wrote:
13 > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
14 >>
15 >> Bo Grimes wrote:
16 >> > I rebooted and my network is "down." eth0 is actually running, but
17 >> > from what I can tell my applications like Evolution and Firefox are
18 >> > trying to use lo.
19 >> >
20 >> > I have the link set up
21 >> >
22 >> > # cd /etc/init.d
23 >> > # ln -s net.lo net.eth0
24 >> >
25 >> > /etc/conf.d/net has config_eth0=( "dhcp" )
26 >> >
27 >> > rc-update add net.eth0 default returns that eth0 is already default.
28 >> > I can see it come up when I boot, but lo also comes up. I don't
29 >> > remember ever creating lo.
30 >> >
31 >> >
32 >> >
33 >>
34 >> Check the output of route. It should tell you what it is using for the
35 >> default gateway. You can also use route command to set the route.
36 >>
37 >> Hope that helps.
38 >
39 > Thanks. Here's what I get:
40 >
41 > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric
42 > Ref Use Iface
43 > 192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0
44 > 0 0 eth0
45 > loopback * 255.0.0.0 U
46 > 0 0 0 lo
47 > default 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 U 0
48 > 0 0 etho
49 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Network Down Apps trying to use lo instead of eth0 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>